Sentence examples for as a privy from inspiring English sources

He has also resigned as a privy counsellor.

As a privy councillor I am entitled to give advice to the Queen.

From 1643, as a privy councillor and as chancellor of the Exchequer, he tried to moderate the influence of the military leaders.

Khan said he was the best-qualified candidate to deal with terrorism because he was the only one with security clearance as a privy councillor.

Soldiers scuffed the carpets, chopped up desks with their knives, lit campfires in the front yard, swung from ropes in the rotunda and used every byway and storeroom in the building as a privy.

Peter tried to cope with these defects pragmatically through the creation of a Senate, which came to serve as a privy council as well as an institution of supervision and control.

Mr Corbyn, a lifelong republican, is expected to kneel in front of the Queen and kiss her hand, as well as taking the oath of a Privy Counsellor during the short ceremony.

In 2008, he stood down from government on being appointed Gordon Brown's special representative on international energy issues, with a privy counsellorship as compensation.

The shed was added around 1910 to serve as a storage space and a privy.

Princes would receive an annual payment from the Indian government in the form of a privy purse as compensation for the surrender of their powers and the dissolution of their states.

Garrow retired on 22 February 1832, replaced by John Gurney, and was made a Privy Councillor on retirement as a measure of the Government's respect for him.